Fascinatingly hooking, the story, the characters, and the direction of Delightfully Deceitful give unexpected pleasure.
Explicitly explaining its concept of “beneficial fraud” – the series vaunts a sound argument on other ways that justice can be claimed and served.
- Main Leads: Chun Woo Hee | Kim Dong Wook | Yoon Park
- Supporting Characters: Lee Yeon | Park So Jin | Yoo Hee Jae | Hong Seung Beum | Lee Tae Ran | Kim Tae Hoon
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Delightfully Deceitful Series Quick Recap
Delightfully Deceitful follows the story of a young female con artist with no empathy and an excessively empathetic lawyer. Two opposite personalities work out a plan to get revenge.
“During the process, I realize, the law isn’t fair and equal to everyone. Unlike a court sentence, the world isn’t black or white. Guilty or not guilty. “
Lee Ro-woom as a child shocked the nation with her superior eidetic memory. She was put to work at an early age by her parents to provide for their family.
Then, she was sent to Jeokmok Foundation, an organization that her parents thought would educate the likes of her but unfortunately, the foundation is actually training special kids to be criminals. She stays at the foundation for a long time until she realizes she wants to go home and be with her parents again.
But the foundation did not want her to leave and killed her parents in front of her. To make matters worse, she is falsely accused of parricide and sent to jail for 10 long years.
When she is released on probation, she met Han Moo-young, a well-known lawyer and she asks him to represent her.
“No matter how reckless it is, I decided to accept myself for who I am.”
Lee Ro-woom also reconnects with other Jeokmok Kids, Jung Da-jung, Na-sa, and Ringgo.
Like Ro-woom, they have outstanding abilities; Da-jung has expert hacking skills, Na-sa has the best engineering skills and Ringgo is multi-lingual.
With their help, Lee Ro-woom makes a series of plans to avenge her parents’ death against Jeokmok Foundation.
“The truth is more powerful than you think.”
Han Moo-young starts as her lawyer but gets too involved in helping Ro-woom seek justice. He suffers from hyper-empathy syndrome. He feels other people’s emotions deep that he even goes to therapy to help his psychological disorder.
Ro-woom and Moo-young realize that they are more connected than just being in a client-lawyer relationship.
Throughout the series, we see Ro-woom put into action her elaborate plan to get revenge on Jeokmok Foundation and how Moo-young will help her.
They also get to involve Ro-woom’s probation officer and Moo-young’s psychiatrist. Will Ro-woom be able to avenge her parents’ death? Will Moo-young be able to find the answers he is looking for?
Delightfully Deceitful Series Highlights + Musings
Drawing a solid backstory about talented young people used by an evil company disguising to have been nurturing gifted youths; the intrigue in the series maintains an addicting level that is truly delightful.
For a revenge story, Delightfully Deceitful is unpredictably amazing because of how convincing and resonating the focal characters are and their stories.
The series is an enjoyable narrative to watch. It brings out a lot of mixed emotions with ample twists and turns. As a result, the viewers are roped in to watch the show from beginning to end.
Coupled with interesting characters, the narrative is easy to follow and understand.
Chun Woo Hee is really the life of the party in Delightfully Deceitful as Ro-woom. If she can be a spirit guide, a lot of people would sign up for that.
Likewise, her interaction with Moo-young is on another level of adorable. Their opposite characters make us curious about how they will be able to achieve their goals.
“Our past experience influences how we make a choice.”
However, the first few episodes are really interesting but somehow, midway, the thrill notches down finally settling to be a fairly-executed revenge drama. Still good enough, but could have been better.
We also hoped they could have at least confirmed the romance between Ro-woom and Moo-young. Nevertheless, the ending is enough to make viewers happy.
Portrayal-wise, wanting to see more of Chun Woo Hee in Korean dramas is expected so we can see her different sides. Kim Dong Wook delivers as usual. Making the most of their parts and roles, the supporting cast also did a great job to make this show an engrossing series.
Enter the manipulative yet fascinating mind of Ro-woom as well as the caring and compassionate heart of Moo-young in Delightfully Deceitful.
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